Page 50 of Mate Match: Curtis & Jae
Curtis tidied up the now empty bags. “Careful, she’ll be asking for a sibling now,” he teased. “Maybe you’ll let us sign you up for Mate Match at last.”
“Maybe.” Marty’s lips twisted into a smile. I thought I noticed a wistful look in his eyes. Perhaps he’d caught a dose of baby fever.
Epilogue
Jae
Ithoughtparenthoodwasan adventure. Doing a book tour with a baby was the same game, just on hard mode. Luckily, I had Curtis and my mom with me for a lot of the tour. Curtis had made Marty a partner in his business along with expanding further, so he could take the time off to see the country with me and baby Leo. He’d pay Marty back when it came time for Marty to go off for parental leave.
Yeah, our friends were finding love thanks to Mate Match, just like we hoped.
Navigating being a dad, writing and illustrating another book, and still working was rewarding. I wouldn’t have changed anything in my life for a second.
Yet, I still loved mornings when I knew I had time to lie in bed with my man. Leo was sleeping through the night and we had an hour before my mom would arrive to take him to a baby group, she had heard about. Mom loved spending time with hergrandbabies. Getting with Curtis had brought her closer to Iseul, too. She often looked after Nari and Leo together, giving me time to catch up with my sister, or just have a break.
I wriggled down the bed, running my hands over the curve of Curtis’ stomach. I loved his big belly! He roused when I pulled his hardening cock out of his underwear and took it into my mouth.
“Jae,” he moaned as I sucked him. I worked my tongue over the head and into his slit, lapping up the precome there. “Baby, let me taste you.”
Totally up for that, I popped off his cock and lay back. I shoved off my underwear, flinging them to parts unknown. With my luck my mom would find them when she was cleaning up.
I was distracted when Curtis pushed back my thighs and licked down my ass crack. He flipped me over to my stomach to get at my hole easier. He pushed his tongue inside me, groaning at the taste of my slick.
Our foreplay wasn’t drawn out. There wasn’t the time to really play with each other’s bodies. We didn’t want to risk Leo waking while still knotted. Curtis thrust inside me, pulling me up so my back was against his chest. I loved this position. He was so deep inside me I felt like I would burst!
On and on he pumped into me until I felt him swell and he came. He continued to rock through his orgasm and stroked me until I reached mine. It was quick, but exactly what we both needed. We lay together on the bed, still joined until his knot went down and he slipped free of my body.
In the room next to us, Leo let out a cry.
“I’ll get him,” Curtis said. He got up, that delicious body on display making me want him again. I wondered if I should get ready for a heat. Leo wasn’t nursing anymore, so they could return soon.
“Curtis?”
“Yeah?”
“Do you want another baby?”
Leo gave another impatient cry. “Let’s get the wedding and our trip out of the way first, huh? Then we can talk about more babies.” He paused at the doorway. “Why? Is it your heat?”
“Yeah. I think it might be soon.”
“Okay, let’s talk to your mom about having Leo.” Our son was getting irritated. His cries grew in volume. “Go shower. We can talk about this later.”
My mom arrived when Curtis was in the shower. We’d switched off Leo duty after a quick, emotional discussion about future babies. “Jae, I think you might be going into heat,” she remarked almost as soon as she scented me.
I guess it was official. I was about to have my first postpartum heat. There was so much to do before then. We’d already decided to give my body more time to recover before having another child. Our life was busy enough and we could afford to wait another year or two.
Despite our first try with DuoStop, there wasn’t anything else we could use that wouldn’t make me sick or draw out my heat longer than it needed to be. We’d just have to trust it would work this time now that the faulty batches were gone.
The way our family and friends rallied around us to get me through this heat and take care of Leo was a testament to how far we’d come. Grace covered Curtis at work. She was now the leader of her own team and would hold down the fort with Marty while Curtis was with me. Brady moved some things around, giving me time to enjoy my heat experience and relax after it without a deadline looming. My parents and Ricky packed up Leo to stay with my mom and dad for a couple of days. It was wonderful to have so much support.
What was better was having two almost completely guilt free days just enjoying my mate.
Curtis
It took us ten months to get married. Our ideal venue had two spaces. One when Leo was two months old, which was far too soon to throw a wedding together, or this one when Leo was crawling and standing up all over the place. It wouldn’t be long before he was walking! I had so much to do in the house to baby proof it now that he was mobile. Brady and Haneul still complained that barely ten months wasn’t long enough to plan a wedding, but they’d done it.
The wedding was tasteful, yet simple, held in a local hotel and attended by most of our family and our friends. Brady was Jae’s best man, with his brother, Jun, also standing with him. I had my best man, Marty, and best woman, Lara, as my attendants. Both were too important to me for me to choose between them. Milo led his sister down the aisle, helping her spread rose petals.
